Jamila Gavin

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Jamila Gavin (born 9 August 1941) is a British writer who was born in Mussoorie, India's present-day state of Uttarakhand in the Western Himalayas.

She is best known for children's books, with a number of her books having Indian roots.

Life

Gavin was born in Mussoorie, Himalayan foothills, in August 1941. In Iran, her Indian father and English mother had met as teachers. She learned to say, "half and half." "I inherited two rich traditions that followed side by side throughout my life, which made me feel I belonged to both countries," she says online.

When Gavin was six, she was first to England and settling there when she was 11. Before becoming a writer, she spent time in the BBC's music department. In 1979, she wrote The Magic Orange Tree and Other Stories, her first book. She became aware that there were few children's books that reflected multiracial life after her first child was born. She has also written books about her childhood in India, particularly her Surya trilogy.

Gavin is a patron of the Shakespeare Schools Festival, a charity that encourages schoolchildren throughout the UK to perform Shakespeare in professional theatres.

Gavin was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, before 1990, and was still living there in 2012. She and Cindy Jefferies became one of the founding of the Stroud Book Festival in 2016.

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Awards and honours

• On 15 July 2014, she was announced as a finalist for the Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature.
• She became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2015.
• Shortlisted for Richard Imison Memorial Award in 2001
• 2000, Winner of Whitbread Children's Book Award (Costa Book Awards,)
• 1997, Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, Shortlist
• 1994, Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, Shortlist
• 1992, Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, Shortlist